Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-30
LIVE STOCK NOTES.
A Scheme 10 0psn Up Market on
the Pacific slope Tor Texas
Saddle Horses.
The Facts & bonn that Electric Fence on
Tho Capitol syndicete's Ranoh-Eom
Green County stachmen,

Mr.. John A. Glass OF Zaphyr, Tex, wa
in the city examining some of the I'm.
stock on txhibitioD, with view to buy.
ing.
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Powell Bros. yesterday sold to Mr.. J
W. Morgan, a S!pe Springs stockman,
fine big black jack for $500 ano two grade
HolsteiE bulls for $50 apiece.
San Angelo Standard: DR.. Gsddis saws
that the cattle and range CT this country
are in ct least 25 per cent. better condi
ton this iali than in 'S5, and tnst the ge q.
eral outlook for the average ranchm.p
next spring never Was better since he has
been an inhabitant OF Tom Green county.
Mr.. 2. Stephens, WAC has been out to
the Capitol Syndicai.'s ranch to deliver q
bunch OF mules which Manager Matlock
mad purchased In Fort Worth while
In the city last week, returned yesterday.
He ssys he stock ofithe syndicate on the
middle and northern part of the range are
IN fine shape, having experienced no
rough weather through the winter, but
those in the southern part have drifted a
great deal and are in rather bad fix. On
the whole, however, they are doing we'll.
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Panhandle Herald: LAST Monday Mr..
Pidcoke turned the abandoned Herald
dugout into stable to shelter four work
animals from the storm. On Tuesday
morning he found the stock unsheltered,
During the night the snow had drifted in
and was trampled solid, and the mules
commenced to rise. They continued to
rise heavenward and broke through the
roof, and would have been far removed
from Panhandle had not stout halters
controlled their ascending aspirations and
anchored them to this mundane sphere.
Mr.. Morphy, lately of the irm of
MofphY & Hickey, Of Fort Worth, yester-
day loaded car with fancy saddle horses
purchased in this city, which he is taking
to California with the intention of
opening market on the Pacific
slope for Texas horses, If practicable.
1t he be successful in his experimental
load, it is proposed for either himself or
others to open up regular business of
this sort, with headquarters in the north
eTn part OF the state, probably at Fort
Worth, in order to be at q central point
from which the required class of animal
can be got. Stock dealers say the scheme
promises TO pan out well for those hay
ing it in hand, and that it will prove
vastly beneficial to horse growers in
North Texas.
Mr.. T. T. d. Andrews was Intercepted
last evening as to the benefits to be ex-
pected by stockmen from the union stock
yards to be established at Fort Worth. |
He said that as soon as regular market |
WAS founded here, which would not be |
long # the yards were put under |
proper management, there would |
be no trouble in maintaining
reirigeratiDg and canning works. |
He txptcts that in three years from now
loo, 900 head OF stock viii be fed each |
year by the farmers of Texas, and in ten
years the number Will DE 100000. The |
stock Of Texas as 1t is now put on the
market is mostly fit only for canning,
bat when the st0ckmen get regulsrly into
the feeding business, which the stockyards
will greatly facilitate, the Texas raised
stock will be SIS good as any raised in
other parts Of the country, for all pur-
poses Ct refrigeration. When this comes
TO pass TefrigerStoTs will be established. |,
and then 10000 head of stock will be /
sold for the growers to the feeders IN the
Union Stock Yards, and brought back
again and sold for the feeders to the re-
short time ago press telegram from
Chicago asserted inst the I ranch in
the Panhandle had made arrangements to
construct fences with wires having an
electric current running through them,
the mere touch of which would cause sn
animal TO ''fy back in surprise" These {
wires were to be such that telephone
connection could be msds through them I
from any point and esch cowboy wss to (
carry an instrument for that purpose. 6
Without other foundation than this tele- q
gram, the newspapers, both In and out of |
Texas, have been full of accounts and de- g
sciiptions of the proposed innovation. {
matter, and finds the only truth |
IN the whole story is {
hat telephone wire connecting +
rsscoss with the headquarters of the I
capitol syndicate's ranch is 10 be laid, d
oaCtly on the posts of wire fence, so to &
ave the expenses of putting in telephone Q
1oies. The length of the line will be il
about twenty five miles, and the portion q
strung on fence posts will be about '
welve miles. Connection can only be O
lad at the en0s Of The line. It is in {
ended, however, to extend the wires to L
be different ranches on the company's r
roperty in the near future. j,
Shipments from Wichita Fa1Is. II
pecIal to the Gazette. 1,
WICHITA FALLS, TEX, Dec. 29.-Fol- 8
owing is the approximate amount of F
took that has been shipped from Wichita C
Falls since the lst Of June, 1887: II
umber of CATTLE. Is 800
,umOer OF noEscs-.-. ..-.-.-.----...-... ot0 v
umber OF sheep. ...,..........,. $500 n
Estimated number of stuck from other 4
points in Wichita county sir ce June L. 5000 ~
,stlrated number Of sheep from March
to June I............... .!............... 5000 s.
Total ..................... 81 200 .
.Stimated number cars Of cattle. 500 u
number cars of horses 40
'stimated number cars Of eheep. ........ SO %
Total -.......... 1,O2Ol :,
lumber Of pounds of wool nearly 1000 II
Baird ChristmRs Tree. a.
pecial to the Gazette. 5